I am going to let Albert Haynesworth in his on words explain to me the struggle he went through deciding if he was going to cash the 21 million dollar bonus check the Redskins gave him in the off season. I will also let Haynesworth talk about he how he wanted to the be:
THE GREATEST LINEMAN OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!
Here is what he had to say:
“I wanted to be the greatest defensive lineman ever to play the game,” Haynesworth told ESPN’s Sara Walsh in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
In the time since, the Redskins have changed coaches — from Jim Zorn to Mike Shanahan — and defensive schemes — from the 4-3 to the 3-4.
The change made Haynesworth hesitate before depositing the $21 million bonus check he was given April 1.
“Yeah, check sat at my house for a couple weeks before I cashed it,” Haynesworth said. “I was weighing my options about what I should do. … Do you want to take this? Do you want to commit yourself to playing a 3-4 [defense]? Do you want to go somewhere else and try again?”
Haynesworth ultimately took the money and stayed with the Redskins. But he did protest the change by skipping the team’s offseason conditioning program and a mandatory minicamp.
You want to know what I think about that?